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Tellus

1. (Roman mythology) The goddess of the Earth in Roman mythology.

   Synonym: Terra

   • 1992, Robert Harris, Fatherland, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 27:

     Now they could see what the guide was telling them: that the pillars supporting the frontage were of red granite, mined in Sweden, flanked at either end by golden statues of Atlas and Tellus, bearing on their shoulders spheres depicting the heavens and the earth.

2. (literary, now chiefly science fiction) The planet Earth.

   Synonyms: Terra, Sol III

   • 1958, Edward E[lmer] Smith, The Skylark of Space, revised edition, Pyramid Books, page 121:

     "Greetings, oh guests from Tellus! I feel more like myself, now that I am again in my trappings and have my weapons at my side." He attached a timepiece to the wrist of each of the guests, with a bracelet of the blue metal. "Will you accompany me to fourth-meal or aren't you hungry?"

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参照

• “Tellus”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “Tellus, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2023), “Tellus, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Further reading

• Tellus on Wikipedia.

Latin

語源

A personification of tellūs; see there for more.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtel.luːs/, [ˈt̪ɛlːʲuːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtel.lus/, [ˈt̪ɛlːus]

名詞

Tellūs f sg (genitive Tellūris); third declension

2. Earth
3. An ancient goddess of the Earth

語形変化

Third-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語

• English: Tellurian, tellurian, tellurium, telluric